[Puppet Users] Managing multiple nagios servers with puppet and virtual resources

wrote:
Hi,

For several years, we have @work had a puppet environment where when we
add a new host/node, some basic monitoring is fed through to a nagios
server using virtual resources and an old nagios class which either someone
here wrote themselves, or found on the internet at the time.

We are trying to move away from the existing puppet environment for a
number of reasons, and using this as an opportunity to tidy up our puppet
classes wherever possible.

Nagios integration is one area that we haven't yet got our heads around.

We would like (I think...) to be able to:
* add a new node to puppet and give it an identifier to say whether it's
(say) dev/test/production etc
* for the new node, define a number of basic monitors - ping, ssh etc.
* have a number of nagios servers (also defined in puppet) which collect
the appropriate resources for dev or test or production

ie, a "dev" node would be monitored by nagios instance 1
a "test" node would be monitored by nagios instance 2
a "production" node would be monitored by nagios instance 3
etc

But I'm struggling to see how I can collect the appropriate resources up
on each nagios server.

Has anyone tried this sort of thing? Can it be done?

Any pointers in the 'right' direction appreciated. If it's documented
anywhere and it's just a case of RTFM, please point me in the direction of
which manual to read :)

Thanks in advance

Phil

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On Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:02:14 AM UTC+1, Pete wrote:

Hi Phil,

The monitoring module I wrote does this very well.
It is on puppet forge if you want to have a look for some inspiration or
install it and go from there :) http://forge.puppetlabs.com/**
rendhalver/monitoring <http://forge.puppetlabs.com/rendhalver/monitoring>
The docs are pretty comprehensive now and explain how it all works.

I basically set it up so everything is abstracted and exported using
stored configs and imported to the monitoring server set in a class
variable I set with hiera.
The monitoring_server variable accepts an array so setting multiple
monitoring servers is easy.

I haven't finished my nagios class yet because I recently switched to
icinga but my monitoring module is completely agnostic.


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